Elad Daniel
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A million years of evolution brought us to the wrong place. It is to blame for much of our modern troubles Let’s take a short journey to a million years ago. Our ancestors, being hunter-gatherers, were troubling themselves with three things – food, protection (from the elements and from not becoming food) and making babies.…
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I have a framework – or more a ladder – for thinking about communication. It contains the things that can communicate. It starts from the very small to the very artificial. I define communication as transferring data from one thing to another. I do not care if the communicating entities are of the same “kind”.…
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We have a skewed thinking of scale. We live in a specific range and evolution optimized us to perceive it best for survival. We see things from almost a millimeter big to (depending on point and field of view) kilometers. And we perceive time in seconds to years. Our brains have adapted to reality at…
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We humans live in a world we are ill equipped for. We are “tooled” in terms of evolution for the Stone Age, but the modern environment we live in is more complex than a cave. Few examples – We crave sugar, salt and fat because it was hard obtaining them. We have cognitive biases which…